I have chosen to discuss is Current Event 1 A, one that I have spoken on several times on my personal page when the incident first occurred.

The primary ethical/moral dilemma is the cop tossing a young woman who was not being physically combative at all, she may had been verbally combative but that doesn’t constitute physical force from the officer whatsoever. This also is an issue of excessive violence by police officers towards minorities, specifically blacks in this country, and the victim blaming that ensues by the media to try and justify the cops action. Blacks and Latinos are treated much more harshly by police and are seen more as threats by police than anyone else, according to the article it states that when the young woman refused …show more content…
In what type of an environment do we live in where we have to have police in our schools at all, man handling children, what kind of an image does that portray? In what type of a country do we live in can we have people justifying this man’s actions as anything but barbaric and unjust? I celebrated when this man got fired, because it is rare that these people face consequences for their actions, it is rare that justice is seen for the victims. We live in a environment where police can shoot first, beat first, manhandle first, assault first, then get slapped on the wrist after the fact, after they give some excuse that they felt “threatened”. What could a young girl do to make that officer feel so endangered that he had to toss her across the room like a rag doll, I have never met a teenager that wasn’t verbally …show more content…
The problem is the cop is a white man dealing with a minority student, and most white people do not even recognize they benefit from white privilege and most cops don’t know they are involved in a structured organization that stems from systemic racism. To them it seems like the girl is being violent, even if it is just words, so him “arresting” her is justified to them because society sees that behavior as acting “Like a thug” not just a teen being a teen. Society has conditioned white people to perceive blacks as being more of a threat, which is why I think he reacted the way they did. I believe if the student had been white, the situation would have never reached the point that it did, the student definitely wouldn’t have been tossed around violent. He didn’t see anything wrong with his actions because he hasn’t been taught any different. Most people that don’t interact with minorities much, only have what they see on TV to go by on forming perceptions, and I think that played a factor in how people assessed the situation. If your only interaction with minorities is associating them with violence/ belligerence etc. that you see on TV, it becomes much more easy for them to rationalize the behavior of the cops’ actions. They find whatever little information they can on the victim to vilify them to justify the atrocities committed against